Product Development Engineer

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Laboratory Setting, Loud Noises (Equipment/Machinery), Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION

Join our collaborative Research & Development team in Meriden, CT as an Engineer, where you will play an important role in supporting commercially released products while also contributing to product and process improvement activities that strengthen long-term manufacturing capability. In this role, you will help ensure products remain compliant, consistent, and aligned with evolving materials, processes, equipment, manufacturing locations, and regulatory requirements, while also supporting initiatives that improve product robustness, manufacturability, and technical performance.

This position is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working in a regulated manufacturing environment and has a strong interest in understanding how product design, manufacturing processes, and technical changes interact. You will develop deep knowledge of the product, process, and plant operations in order to assess the impact of change, support product evolution, and help ensure products continue to meet customer, regulatory, and business requirements.

In this role, you will lead and support technical activities such as material changes, supplier changes, equipment updates, process improvements, qualification activities, and regulatory-driven updates. You will partner closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Product Development, and other cross-functional teams to perform technical assessments, define testing strategies, and execute or support verification and validation activities needed to confirm that product performance and design intent are maintained.

This role combines technical analysis, engineering judgment, documentation, and hands-on engagement with manufacturing and testing. You will author and maintain engineering assessments, technical justifications, protocols, reports, and change documentation, helping ensure that product and process changes are implemented in a controlled, compliant, and scientifically sound manner.

In addition, the role offers the opportunity to contribute to broader product and process development efforts, supporting the ongoing evolution of manufacturing capability and technical knowledge within the organization.

Your work will directly support Thermo Fisher Scientific’s mission by helping ensure our products continue to perform reliably and safely for customers around the world.

REQUIREMENTS

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a scientific discipline and 5+ years of relevant experience in product engineering, sustaining engineering, manufacturing engineering, product development, commercialization, applied research, or a related technical field; or
• Advanced degree and 3+ years of relevant experience; or
• High school diploma/GED and 10+ years of equivalent industry experience in a related technical role.

Preferred Fields of Study

• Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related scientific/engineering discipline.

Required Experience

• Experience in a regulated industry such as medical device, biopharmaceutical, life sciences, or other highly controlled manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting post-market or sustaining products, including evaluating and implementing changes to materials, processes, equipment, suppliers, manufacturing locations, or product design.
• Demonstrated ability to perform technical impact assessments and determine how proposed changes may affect product performance, compliance, and design intent.
• Experience authoring technical documentation such as engineering assessments, risk analyses, protocols, reports, investigations, and change qualification packages.
• Experience supporting verification, validation, and/or qualification